The remains of a Stone Age structure that's older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids have been found by archaeologists in the Czech Republic. During the late Neolithic, or New Stone Age, a local farming community may have gathered in this building.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is taller than the roundel, which is about 55 meters in diameter. It is too early to say anything about the people who built this roundel, but it is clear that they were part of the Stroked Pottery culture.
The director of the roundel excavation in the district of Vino said that revealing the structure could give them a clue. The current dig has revealed the entire structure of the Vino roundel for the first time. Stone tools, animal bones, and pottery fragments have been recovered by his team.
The carbon-dating organic remains from this roundel excavation could help the team link the structure to a Neolithic settlement discovered nearby.
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The people who made Stroked Pottery ware are known for their roundels. The sedentary farming villages were located at the intersection of contemporary Poland, eastern Germany and the northern Czech Republic and had longhouses that held 20 to 30 people each. The knowledge of roundels crossing the borders of other cultures was noted by dk. Roundels were built across central Europe.
When aerial and drone photography became a key part of the archaeological tool kit, roundels were not well known. Roundels are the oldest evidence of architecture in Europe, according to dk.
Roundels are made up of one or more wide, circular ditches with several gaps that acted as entrances. The inner part of each roundel may have been lined with wooden poles. There are hundreds of circular earthworks that have been found in central Europe, but they all have a short lifespan. Their function is still up in the air despite their popularity.
The earliest known roundel was discovered in Germany in 1991. The Goseck Circle had a double wooden palisade and three entrances. According to a 2012 study in the journal Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, one interpretation of the Goseck Circle is that it functioned as an observatory or calendar of sorts.
He told Live Science that the most important function of the Vino structure was socio-ritual. It is possible that roundels were built to commemorate important events in the community such as rites of passage or economic exchange.
The roundels are usually 200 feet (60 m) in diameter or half the length of a football field, because the people who built them used only stone tools. Few burials have been found that can provide more information about the people.
Around 4600 B.C., roundels vanished from the archaeological record. The mystery of the roundels may eventually be solved by future research similar to the excavation at Vino.
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